Case Study
Content Moderation Under India’s IT Rules
Content Moderation Under India’s IT Rules
Platform GovernanceAsia-Pacific2023
India's IT Rules, 2021 introduced significant intermediary due-diligence obligations, including mandatory grievance officers and expedited takedown timelines.
Compliance reporting shows wide variance in takedown volume across platforms, with little public visibility into the substantive basis for individual removals.
The rules' traceability requirements for messaging services have drawn sustained legal challenge on encryption and privacy grounds.
Three years in, appellate mechanisms for contested takedowns remain underused relative to the volume of removal requests.